Innovation in the Imaging Capital
Exhibition Info Innovation in the Imaging Capital For decades, Rochester was known as the imaging capital of the world. Innovation and invention by Rochester’s imaging companies paved the way for the world we now live in, from medical testing to space exploration, digital capture and transmission, and more.
Innovation in the Imaging Capital highlights Rochester’s major contributions to the imaging story, showing technology made possible by inventions that were originated or developed here. One section of the exhibition focuses on consumer photographic products, including early digital inventions such as the first digital camera patented by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1977. Medical devices and inventions on display include early and modern digital X-rays and a capsule camera. Early aerial cameras used during World War I and II, the Lunar Orbiter are featured in the section about reconnaissance imaging.
The exhibition features artifacts from the George Eastman House collection, along with objects borrowed from several lenders.
Sponsored in part by Sydor Optics and Xerox Foundation, with additional support from KBPaxton, Inc. and Nocon & Associates Ameriprise Private Wealth Advisory Practice.
Equipment
Apple Inc.
October 2005
Camera
Apple Inc.
February 2008
Camera
Eastman Kodak Company
Negative
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
1967
Negative
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
1967
Negative
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
1967
Negative
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
1967
Photograph
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
August 23, 1966
Photograph
Unidentified
ca. 1953
Photograph
Albert W. Stevens
October 23, 1920
Photograph
Unidentified
ca. 1890
Photograph
Unidentified
ca. 1891
